Influenced by the narrative structure of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, each of the paintings in this series began with my recreating from memory a childhood drawing. The painting would then develop through layering moves and gestures from moments in my artistic past, for instance my use of collage developed in high school or certain brushstrokes developed in graduate school. The title of each painting is a line from the book, given in sequential order as paintings were finished. When I ran out of quotes from the book, I ended the series. (2012-14)